If you’d like to spend 6 or 12 weeks programming with kind, curious people, apply to RC! When we began rewriting the RC application earlier this year, I was very much inspired by one of the best question sets I’ve come across: the Oxford Al…
When we began rewriting the RC application earlier this year, I was very much inspired by one of the best question sets I’ve come across: the Oxford All Souls Examination papers. They give a choice of one or two questions from a few lists o…
How do I participate in RC from a non-American timezone? This is a really common question, and the answer is: everyone approaches it a little differently. Patricia Boh lives in Paris and finished her batch at RC in early February 2023. Patr…
The word “sabbatical” often evokes either a professor deep in a distant dusty archive or someone relaxing on a beautiful beach. But while in theory you could throw your phone in the trash, get bangs, and move to Bali, most of us can’t just
My cofounders and I adopted the no well-actually rule before we even started the Recurse Center. Almost immediately, it made working together more pleasant because the rule made us aware of an annoying tic we all had: Making pedantic “corre…